Episode 10 – Chernobyl

Greetings, Comrades!
We’ve had a rough February – and we didn’t manage to fix all of our errors in the previous podcasts, but…here we are nonetheless. This show was one of the hardest ever to make, and I really hope you’ll not only enjoy it, but will also take some time to understand the depth of the tragedy. Today’s picture is – Pripyat. Empty, irradiated and ghastly, it stands there to remind us of the evils of ignorance.

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Birgitta Dahl, who was the Minister for Energy Affairs in Sweden by the time of the Chernobyl disaster claims the Moscow government wasn’t aware of the disaster when she contacted them in April 28. So it was rather the people at Chernobyl who tried to hide the accident, not Moscow and Gorbachev.

The attempted cover up may have been done in true Russian style, and subtlety. BUT the knee-jerk reaction to minimize and cover up big industrial stuff is by no means unique to the Soviet Union – Bhopal India, and Three Mile Island are also case studies.